Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Announces Physician Volume Data on Hip and Knee Replacements is Now Available on FloridaHealthFinder.gov

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration issued the following news release on December 6, 2010:


Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Announces Physician Volume Data on Hip and Knee Replacements is Now Available on FloridaHealthFinder.gov


TALLAHASSEE – The Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) today announced that physician volume data on total hip and total knee replacements is now available on http://www.floridahealthfinder.gov/.


Consumers can access everything they need to know about hip and knee replacements in Florida’s hospitals, including health outcomes, pricing, physician volume, and educational information. “It is important to provide consumers access to information that can help them make well-informed health care decisions for themselves and their loved ones,” said Elizabeth Dudek, Interim Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration.


The information on http://www.floridahealthfinder.gov/ helps consumers and researchers find and compare results for nursing homes, prescription drugs, hospice providers, health plan performance, and hospital inpatient data on length of stay, charges, mortality, complication and infection rates and more. The Agency conducts ongoing outreach to measure the website’s consumer usability and works with the State Consumer Health Information and Policy Advisory Council to enhance and promote tools to assist consumers in managing their own health care.

The Agency for Health Care Administration is committed to better health care for all Floridians. The Agency administers Florida’s Medicaid program, licenses and regulates more than 41,000 health care facilities and 43 health maintenance organizations, and publishes health care data and statistics on FloridaHealthFinder.gov. For more information, please visit AHCA.MyFlorida.com.


For more information about the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and South Florida home care for seniors and other family members, contact Brian Gauthier at A Family Member Home Care(954) 986-5090 or www.afamilymemberhomecare.com.

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